10.15.2007
Like a twisting knife...
Why is there such pain throughout the earth? everywhere you turn, there is some form of war, of greed, of power that has clearly been abused. my heart pains with knowing that we kill one another daily because we think that is how we will ever get ahead. what is war good for? how can slaughtering a people bring justice? how can we ever find the face of Love when we abandon it all together because we have let our hands get covered in blood that was not even ours to take? surely, the lord weeps. and when i slow just enough to remember how horribly narrow-minded we can be as a people, i ache as well. why death? why poverty? why is social change something that a mere trend wants to see happen? why aren't more of us concerned about our brothers and sisters dying from AIDS, abuse, neglect, and war? Why do we turn a deaf ear so easily to the painful screams behind the eyes of those who've been raped, sold, brainwashed, and made silent with fear? We are vengeful... but for what? we were the ones that spat in Jesus' face as we hung him on his cross. and for what? why is this our foundational primal instinct? to kill because we dont understand. to kill because there is a lack of clear power. to kill because everyone else must be wrong. sounds like we are afraid... and running. i hope and pray that we all stop, just enough, to hear once again the call of Love. because at this rate, all we are doing is killing ourselves...
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I think about this so often, how much we are afraid, afraid of what we don't understand, afraid of what is different, afraid of ourselves, afraid of looking below the surface of things because we are afraid of what we'd find. So we persecute and punish and kill and hurt and we do all of it as fast and furious as we can because we think that if we never stop we'll never have to deal with any of it.
"I was born to go to war
it comes so natural to me
sure as a hammer finds a nail
death is the only way to peace"
I also think a lot about how much we underestimate the value and the impact of simply loving someone with no strings attached, of acting selflessly rather than selfishly. We are so predisposed to violence - whenever we want anything, even peace, the natural instinct is to beat it out of whoever we want it from, to take it forcefully. But I can't help thinking that if instead we chose to simply love (I say simply, but really this is a very complicated problem in some cases, and in any case is very hard, as it's not our natural inclination), a lot of the things we feel the desire to take from people would be freely given.
"There's got to be a love that's stronger than our fear of everything being out of control..."
Because love helps us to be who we are, it helps us to see that, and I believe that when we see that, we see that we are really no different than anyone else, that we have no reason to persecute and to fear other people, it helps us to see the impact that love can have on a life, and to want to give that to someone else. But we want to buy friends at the store because it's much easier than to love... so we don't really love anymore, we simply associate. As a result, we all feel alone, alienated, fearful, and it shows.
THERE HAS TO BE A LOVE THAT'S STRONGER THAN OUR FEAR.
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